After that highly recommended series that is Iron (2019-2021), the writers Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo They return to Movistar Plus with another criminal mystery in a small town, along broadchurch (2013-2017), with rape (since 2022). But they go to the other end of the country, from the Canary Islands to Galicia. And they repeat the formula of placing two different characters before the inquiries, a literature teacher and a civil guard, the Tomás and Maite embodied by Javier Camara and Monica Lopez.
Its concept is not like Agatha Christie, with which the identity of the murderer is always a surprise, but it is somewhat closer to the dynamics of Patricia Highsmith or Colombo (1971-2003) and, on the other hand, what matters is discovering the reasons for homicidal behavior. Offering, incidentally, a social fresco in which opposing motivations lead to greater dramatic complexity. Y manages to catch us Enough to make us want answers.
Closing out each episode with a reveal or a twist and thus a hook make sure we don’t want to get off the train. rape ultimately. Likewise, from its first bars, the audiovisual mime that is spent is difficult to argue with, with suggestive close-ups and details, Xavi Font’s atmospheric soundtrack and the exquisite eight-handed montage that includes almost hypnotic slow-motion compositions at critical moments.
Less charisma, the same good audiovisual manners
He is exemplary in his narrative manners; It captures our attention without manipulating us. But the set does not achieve the brilliance of Iron. In part, for the minor eloquence of his dialogues and, furthermore, because the charisma of the two leading characters, Javier Cámara’s Tomás and Mónica López’s Maite, I know sample lower to those of Antonio Díaz by Darío Grandinetti and Candela Montes by ídem Peña in the thriller Canary. From the writing of Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo, one would say.
His presence is appreciated beyond all doubt, regardless of the claim for fame of the first since the series Seven lifes (1999-2006). Like the the imposing Berta Ojea, born in La Coruna. And some twist, filled with a whimsical but entirely plausible coincidence, reminds us of the impressive ending of The oathsecond adaptation of the homonymous novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, made by actor Sean Penn (2001), after the film the baitby Ladislaus Vajda (1958).
The directors Jorge Coira and Elena Trapé have been in charge of three episodes each. He is also responsible for films like eighteen meals (2010) and Emperor Code (2022), and her, from Blog (2010) and The distances (2018); one has made other chapters of I know who you are (2017), for example, and the other, from HIT (since 2020). And both make up several parallel montages with dramatic intensity and high closings so that we can continue with Javier Cámara and Mónica López.
‘Rapa’ does not amaze us, but it gets our respect
However, median rape, it seems to us that its main problem is that, based on certain clues, it gives one the feeling that one already smells the causes of the murder and the characters involved. And, although the second is so, then he realizes that he has been too smart. But, perhaps, it is not something that harms. Instead of surprising only the viewer, he hits him in his pridea very different experience from what we are used to in the narrative.
What does strain the hinges of credibility a little are certain communication difficulties between the protagonists, in the manner of the episode “Colony” (2×16) of The X-Files (since 1993) and with the same intention: to generate danger and concern. But, in the very decent set of fiction by Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo, it does not affect much; and the game of cat and mouse that he turns into in the end, however, satisfies us and reminds us that making an effort like this, without dazzling, is enough to obtain our respect.